The Carolinian [September 7, 2000]

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7,2000 ISSUE 1 Students Rally to
Take Back the Night
By JENNIFER BROOME
Senior Writer
What event could bring stu-dents,
fatuity, staff, alumni and
community members of both
genders together for a common
cause? On August 29, the sixth
annual Take Back the Night
Rally did just that.
Take Back the Night is a na-tionwide
program whose pur-pose
is to raise awareness
about sexual assault, particu-larly
on college campuses.
Every 21 minutes someone is
raped on a college campus.
UNCG and other universities
are fighting this trend in many
ways. Take Back the Night
being one of them.
The program was officiated
by Adrianne Atkinson, a
Wellness Center Assistant at
UNCG. The speeches opened try. Officer Sue Stroud then to end it. The chanting brought
with short remarks from Jenn
Broome, a UNCG student.
Following Ms. Broome was
Mary Culkin, a member of
UNCG's Sexual Assault Re-sponse
Team. Ms. Culkin de-scribed
the process that women
may go through once they have
been raped; she also informed
students that the Response
Team was available for anyone
who has been sexually as-saulted,
at any time, any day of
the year. You can request a Re-sponse
Team member from a
police officer, or you can con-tact
them through the Wellness
Center.
Dr. Steve Cureton spoke
next, and his remarks elo-quently
reflected the views of
a male outraged at the existence
of sexual violence in this coun-spoke
about ways women can
protect themselves on cam-pus.
She recommended Rape
Aggression Defense, or RAD,
training. RAD is an intensive
three week course for women
that teaches basic and ad-vanced
self-defense tech-niques.
The training is free
to any female who is a UNCG
student. (To sign up for RAD,
call the number at the end of
this column). Carolina Clancy
closed the evening's remarks,
and prepared the audience to
march.
Holding candles and chant
sheets, the group of men and
women of varying ages
marched across campus,
shouting their anger at domes-tic
violence and their hope
that everyone will take a part
out additional support for the
group, as people who had not
attended were suddenly faced
with a choice: be a part of the
problem, or become a part of
the solution.
Numbers to Know:
Rape, Abuse, and Incest Na-tional
Network: (800) 656-
HOPE
UNCG Counseling Center:
334-5874
UNCG Wellness Centeix 334-
3190
UNCG RAD program: 334-
4444
If you have been sexually as-saulted
or are a victim of do-mestic
violence, please call the
Guilford County Emergency
Hotline at 273-RAPE, or Cam-pus
Police at 334-4444
ASG President Announces
Resignation After Felony Charges
By CHRIS BUTLER
Sporls Editor
Thursday. September 7. on
the campus of NC State Uni-versity,
former ECU Student
Government President, and
current NC Association of
Student Governments Presi-dent
will announce his resig-nation
after being charged with
one felony and one misde-meanor
count of larceny. Cliff
Webster will be the second
ASG President in as many
.years to resign under a cloud
of controversy. Last year's
President Nick Mirisis, of
UNC Charlotte, resigned after
he admitted to plagiarism at
UNCC.
ASG is a coalition body that
is made up of each president
of the 16 University of North
Carolina schools, and three
additional members from each
school for a total of a 64 mem-ber
body. This body lobbies
to the Board of Governors, and
the NC General Assembly to
help shape policy for the
schools of the University sys-tem.
Last year this body fought
hard to keep tuition from being
raised at five of the schools in
the system, and this year the
main focus of the Association
is to lobby voters to pass the
bond issue on the November
ballot that will give 3.1 billion
dollars to the 16 system
schools. This 3.1 billion dol-lars
includes 56 million dollars
for UNCG. The president of
ASG is the voice of the 155,000
students that attend the 16 Uni-versity
of North Carolina
schools on the powerful Board
of Governors.
Webster, 24, currently a grad
student at East Carolina, and
Joshua Culp. also an ECU stu-dent,
were arrested on June 30
and charged with the theft of
two metal benches from the
grounds of ECU. The stolen
benches were estimated to have
cost $2,300. Webster could
face jail time and fines if con-victed
of these charges.
Webster is scheduled to ap-pear
in court on November 3.
Webster is still in good
standing at ECU and will con-tinue
his studies at the univer-sity.
According to ASG's
Constitution, Webster could
still hold his position as Presi-dent
of the Association. How-ever,
he knows the impor-tance
of this year's bond is-sues.
"ASG doesn't need to
worry with my issues, we
need to worry about getting
this bond issue passed,"
Webster said about his deci-sion
to resign his position in
ASG.
These events leave ASG in
the hands of its 64 member
body to elect a new president
on Thursday, September 7.
The race for this position is
wide open and is being sought
by many current ASG mem-bers.
As of Friday, Septem-ber
1, the last day to declare to
be a candidate, five members
ofASG had expressed interests
in the position.
UNCG's James Bryan, the
current Chief of Staff for
UNCG President John Shearin
and three year veteran ofASG.
is 1 of the 5 who are running
for the position. "It is a shame
that ASG has lost two quality
leaders in the past two years.
However, I believe that all five
candidates are capable of get-ting
the organization back on
track," states James Bryan, as
he prepares to run for the va
See Naughty p.4
Please Hammer Don't Hurt Him
By GREG SHEALY
News Editor
The Amazon Jungle is a
neatly trimmed garden in com-parison
to the savageness of
Greensboro's politics. The
most recent example of the
lack of civility present in mu-nicipal
affairs was the Guilford
County School Board retreat at
Camp Caraway on August 26.
What started as a retreat de-signed
to allow board mem-bers
to better communicate
with one another ended in
charges of racial slurs and ag-gravated
assault. The meeting
ended with school board mem-ber
Keith Green and the editor
of the Rhinoceros Times, John
Hammer, coming to physical
and verbal blows. The confron-tation
resulted in the charges of
communicating threats and as-sault
to be filed against Keith
Green, and accusations of rac-ism
to be directed against John
Hammer by many quarters of
Greensboro's population.
School board member
Anita Sharpe, who took pains
to state that her views repre-sented
only her opinion and
not that of the entire school
board, told The Carolinian
that "the situation had been
brewing for a very long time."
She went on to say that the
Rhinoceros Times has been
critical of the school board for
over a year, and has on some
occasions personally attacked
its members. This latent hos-tility
reached its culmination
at the Camp Caraway retreat.
Hammer told The Carolinian
that during an afternoon break
he looked at an evaluation of
the School Board prepared by
board member Chris Cooke.
Believing these evaluations to
be public documents. Hammer
asked school board Chairman
Susan Mendenhall if he could
view the evaluations prepared
by other members of the school
board. Mendenhall told him
See Hammertime p. 4
Student Hurt
in Dorm Attack
By EMILY MAYNARD
Staff Writer
On Sunday, August 27, a fe-male
student was attacked in
her second story dorm room.
The assault took place in Weil
Winfield Residence Hall. Fol-lowing
the attack, she was
taken to Moses Cone Hospital
where she received stitches
above her eye. No arrests have
been made, and the motives of
the attack remain unknown.
Winfield Hall residents
claim that the door alarms
were not functioning properly.
Normally, when an outside
door is propped open for
longer than 30 seconds, an
alarm sounds. UNCG Police
Chief Donelson said, "The
University takes any crime se-riously.
We are reviewing the
security policy and checking
all [133] Blue Light Phones.
In January there will be an-other
review of security." Ac-cording
to the UNCG safety
guide from fall of '99, aggra-vated
assault and burglary
have shown a downward trend
over the past few years.
To keep yourself and others
safe, be sure to keep doors
locked at all times and not to
keep any doors propped open.
Do not let any unaccompanied
visitors into your buildings,
make them call the resident
they are visiting from the call
boxes located at each dorm.
Immediately report any unau-thorized
visitations or suspi-cious
people to Residence Hall
Staff. In addition, always
travel across campus in groups,
and if that is not possible to call
the safe escort service.
According to Community
Advisors, many of these
crimes occur during the first 2
weeks of school. This is be-cause
many underclassmen are
unfamiliar with safe campus
procedures. Unfortunately, it
is only after a crime occurs that
the many people choose to take
an active role in preventing at-tacks.
Anyone with information
regarding the incident is asked
to contact Crime Stoppers at
334-4390 or UNCG police at
334-4444. Crime Stoppers is
a program that unites the
UNCG campus with its law
enforcement program. In ad-dition
to the satisfaction of get-ting
a criminal off the streets,
those who contribute informa-tion
leading to the conviction
of the attacker can receive up
to $1,000 cash.
Administration
Eyes Tuition Increase
INSIDE
THIS
ISSUE
Opinions, page 2
Moving On Up, Uncle Billy
Loves Those Freshmen,
Features, page 4
Web Junkie: Wired,
Free Love
By ERIKA HUGHES
Opinions Editor
The University is proposing
a $300 tuition increase, to
gradually occur over four se-mesters.
The undergraduate
tuition would increase by $75
per semester, or $ 150 per year.
Seniors (those graduating in
December 2000. May or Au-gust
2001) would not be af-fected
by the proposed in-crease.
The University Tuition Task
Force is holding meetings on
Wednesday. September 6 at 7
pm and Thursday. September
7 at 3 pm in the Alexander
Room. EUC. to discuss the
proposed tuition increase for
full-time undergraduate stu-dents
at UNCG. The Task
Force wants to meet with the
University community to dis-cuss
the proposal and receive
feedback from those who
would be affected by the in-crease.
Student Body Presi-dent
John Shearin. one of just
two undergraduate students on
the Tuition Task Force, feels
that "it is important for stu-dents
to come out and express
their needs - and concerns."
He plans to attend both meet-ings.
John Shearin wanted to
stress that this "is a proposal;
it can change." The money
would primarily go to staff re-cruitment
and retention, as
well as Financial Aid. "Our
staff is severely underpaid,"
said Shearin. When compared
with other, peer universities,
UNCG does not pay its Assis-tant
Profesftrs - those who
have not yet received tenure -
a comparable amount. Theo-retically.
UNCG would use the
money to employ competitive
professors, and prevent our
current professors from taking
higher-paying jobs at other
colleges. Shearin believes it is
important for students to attend
this meeting, so they can gain
a better understanding of what
this money could do for the
University community. "The
increase is not unnecessary."
said Shearin.
Sherin believes the students
need to make up their own
minds about what is ultimately
their own money. Any pro-posed
increase would have to
pass the Board of Trustees, and
then be submitted to the Board
of Governors in Raleigh. The
proposal, if accepted, would
most likely take effect in the
fall of 2001.
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